> The one-question-askers may be using throwaway accounts Why would you use a throw-away account? There something personal about a compiler error? > they migh

> The one-question-askers may be using throwaway accounts Why would you use a throw-away account? There something personal about a compiler error? > they might be in completely the wrong place I assumed mods moved questions to the right place or directed users to correct board. > have a low likelihood of ever needing to ask another SO question I can understand not asking 50 questions. But never asking a second question? Your entire programming career you only have one technical problem you need help with? > They might also just not run into questions that are only answerable by asking the open internet that often Yes, a lot of the technical problems I encounter at work are too specific to our implementation for SO. No retention rate will be 100%, whatever the product. And there are plenty of legit reasons why you may not need to ask a lot of questions. But 7%? They can't all be "noobs" asking dumb questions since plenty of HN devs here complain of similar problems: arbitrary downvoting, questions being marked as duplicate when they're not, unaccountable mods, etc. To me the fact that 93% of SO askers don't bother with the site after their first experience signals a deeper problem with how SO is structured. As one of other comments in this thread argues, their setup was designed for its initial phase of growth but it's not ideal for the "mature" phase its in now.